An ingenious classic locked-room murder mystery about the feuding family of a composer that’s perfect for fans of Lucy Foley, Ruth Ware, and Anthony Horowitz Featuring the scruffy sleuth Kosuke Kindaichi—the most famous Japanese detective—created by one of Japan's greatest crime writers: Seishi Yokomizo, the “Japanese Agatha Christie” Locked room mysteries are hot again, and th...(展开全部)

Every child knows what it means to play, but the rest of us can merely speculate. Is it a kind of adaptation, teaching us skills, inducting us into certain communities? Is it power, pursued in games of prowess? Fate, deployed in games of chance? Daydreaming, enacted in art? Or is it just frivolity? Brian Sutton-Smith, a proponent of play theory, considers each possibility as it...(展开全部)

Gus and Ben are on the job, waiting and listening. Into the waiting silence rattles the dumb waiter with extraordinary demands for dishes they cannot supply - and who is operating the dumb waiter in an empty house? In a while their victim will come and they will know what to do.

迈克尔•道布斯，1948年出生于英国赫特福德郡，毕业于牛津大学，1975年步入政坛，开始为保守党议员撰写演讲稿，很快崭露头角，被称为“威斯敏斯特的娃娃脸杀手”，后任政府特别顾问和撒切尔政府幕僚长，最终于保守党副主席的职位上退休，2010年被英王室册封为男爵。 身为政治家的同时，他也是畅销书作家。1989年，道布斯讲述英国官场故事的处女作小说《纸牌屋》大获好评，次年被BBC改成电视剧，风靡全球。他顺势又写出另外两部以厄克特为主角的小说《玩转国王》《最后一章》，完整交代了这位政坛枭雄的精彩一生，这两部小说也都被BBC改编成电视剧。2013年，好莱坞知名导演大卫•芬奇和奥斯卡影帝凯文•史派西联袂出手，再次将《纸牌屋》搬上荧屏，一经播出，再次火爆全球。

迈克尔•道布斯，1948年出生于英国赫特福德郡，毕业于牛津大学，1975年步入政坛，开始为保守党议员撰写演讲稿，很快崭露头角，被称为“威斯敏斯特的娃娃脸杀手”，后任政府特别顾问和撒切尔政府幕僚长，最终于保守党副主席的职位上退休，2010年被英王室册封为男爵。 身为政治家的同时，他也是畅销书作家。1989年，道布斯讲述英国官场故事的处女作小说《纸牌屋》大获好评，次年被BBC改成电视剧，风靡全球。他顺势又写出另外两部以厄克特为主角的小说《玩转国王》《最后一章》，完整交代了这位政坛枭雄的精彩一生，这两部小说也都被BBC改编成电视剧。2013年，好莱坞知名导演大卫•芬奇和奥斯卡影帝凯文•史派西联袂出手，再次将《纸牌屋》搬上荧屏，一经播出，再次火爆全球。

作者 彼得·西斯（Peter Sis），美国著名艺术家，身兼画家、作家、插画家、设计师、电影导演；曾荣获麦克阿瑟荣誉奖章、柏林电影节金熊奖、凯迪克奖、纽伯瑞奖、美国插画家协会金奖、《纽约时报》书评周刊年度最佳儿童图书奖……加诸彼得·西斯身上的荣誉，难以计数。仅以《纽约时报》书 评周刊年度最佳图画书而论，二十年中他竟“霸占”了三分之一强，《玛德琳卡》《玛德琳卡的狗》《生命之树》《飞行员与小王子》四次为他带来 “年度最佳儿童图书”的荣誉。2012年，彼得·西斯荣获得国际安徒生插画奖。 译者 柳漾，新浪微博“柳树在说话”，儿童文学工作者。本职编辑，业余时间喜欢与书打交道，写书评、做翻译，翻译的作品有图画书《和朋友一起想办法》《爱打嗝的斑马》《不会唱歌的小鸟》《青蛙王子变形记》《走开，大黑兔！》《罗丝的花园》《北极星》《不来梅的音乐家》《玛德琳过圣诞》《动物...(展开全部)

"Listen." A little boy named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is playing the piano. "Look." He is playing backward He is playing blindfolded "Imagine." What must his life be like? " Play, Mozart, play " Acclaimed artist Peter Sis introduces very young children to the child genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in this picture book tribute to the beauty of listening, looking, imagini...(展开全部)

The play begins with Max and Charlotte, a couple whose marriage seems about to rupture. But nothing one sees on a stage is the real thing, and some things are less real than others. Charlotte is an actress who has been appearing in a play about marriage by her husband, Henry. Max, her leading man, is also married to an actress, Annie. Both marriages are at the point of rupture ...(展开全部)

Pete the Cat is ready to play baseball! Pete's team, the Rocks, is playing the Rolls. But when the game doesn't go Pete's way, what will Pete do?

The play begins with Max and Charlotte, a couple whose marriage seems about to rupture. But nothing one sees on a stage is the real thing, and some things are less real than others. Charlotte is an actress who has been appearing in a play about marriage by her husband, Henry. Max, her leading man, is also married to an actress, Annie. Both marriages are at the point of rupture ...(展开全部)